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? 3-Year Pact
DETROIT CP) The CIO Unite Auto Workers Monday
nailed do'wn at General Motors Corp. the same guaranteed
wage plan it won a week ago from Ford.
Walter Reuther, UAW president, thus firmly estab
lished the controversial employer-paid supplemental unem
ployment benefit system in the auto industry, an important
beachhead from which he hopes to launch it into other
industries.
The three-year agreement was hammered out in a pre
dawn settlement after more than 37 hours of bargaining
broken only by brief.recesses.
More than 40 of GM's 119 plants across the nation were
hit by walkouts as the negotiations dragged on hours after
; 1 the union's midnight strike
Trucks Roll
v
In Far West
LOS ANGELES W Long-haul
trucking has been resumed
throughout the West after settle
ment of a strike and lockout
which lasted 24 days.
A three-year agreement rati
fied Saturday by truckers and
Back in Gear
Local freight companies
were back in gear Monday
morning. The long haul firms
reported a back log of busi
ness which accumulated dur
ing the strike would keep
them busy for several days.
AFL Teamsters will give drivers
an increase of 8 cents an hour
this year. 8 in 1956 and 7 in
1957. The company also agreed to
contribute $8.65 a month per
driver to a pension fund. The
raise this year boosts the drivers'
hourly rate to S2.22.
Also agreed on was a Vt cent
per year increase in mileage pay
which has been 7Vi cents per
mile. The drivers are paid by
cither the mile or the hour,
whichever is greater.
r The California Trucking Assn.
estimated the strike cost the in
dustry a gross revenue of 15 mil
lion dollars.
An industry spokesman said
the strike idled 100,000 workers
throughout the 11 Western states,
but Frank Brewster of Seattle,
president of the AFL Western
Conference of Teamsters, said
only 20,000 were affected in the
West and 5,000 in the Midwest.
Soviets Okay
Big 4 Parley
In Switzerland
MOSCOW W The Soviet gov
ernment Monday agreed to the
Western powers' proposal that
the Big Four open their top level
meeting in Geneva on July 18.
At the same time, the Foreign
Ministry issued a press statement
Officials Pleased
WASHINGTON W U. S.
officials expressed themselves
as well pleased Monday at
word of Russia's acceptance
of the time and place for a
Big Four meeting.
repeating charges that' U. S. Sec
retary of State Dulles was at
tempting to set up preconditions
which would handicap the confer
ence. The acceptance was made in
notes delivered -to the United
States, Britain and France.
The Russian note was made
public at a news conference in
the Soviet Foreign Ministry Mon
day night.
As the news conference was
held. U. S. Ambassador Charles
E. Bohlen was en route to Wash
f ington for discussions with Presi
dent Eisenhower and Secretary
Dulles on conference arrange
ments.
. The Russians also apparently
. timed their reply to the Western
Divers with the trip of West Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
to the United Stages, where ne
will confer with the U ., British
and French forcigi ministers this
..Mr
The Russians havenvited Me-
naur to come to Moscow for dis
missions ort"normalization at rs-
' l.ikins with Ihe USSR. Adej
rauer wants tneg talki'to wjit
until after th Big Four si'iit
Ij.$. Denouoced 0
o PARJS vV-Benoit Fractal, head
of ,"ofiounist-lca French
oaGcnerai J ederation ot worxey
H ilia hi? Anion's 3rh na
tion:4 ronvenSon ftindayiit a
spcOh depicting thejiteftfitate:.
as coOitry with frte rnilln
unemployed ei1c4e those SVd
have jobioire being "paclpcri:!.
deadline. The strikers were
expected to return to their
jobs quickly with little loss
in auto production.
The GM pact closely followed
the recent Ford Motor Co. con
tract in nearly every respect. It
calls for improvements in pay,
pensions, vacations and holidays
similar to those worked out at
Ford.
FULL UNION SHOP
In addition, it grants the UAW
full union shop for the first
time, meaning that GM's relative
ly few nonunion production work
ers must now join the union to
keep their jobs.
An additional 35,000 GM em
ployes represented by the CIO
International Union of Electrical
Workers were given the same
economic benefits under an agree
ment reached an hour after the
UAW settlement was announced.
The electrical workers had threat
ened to join the auto workers in
any strike action.
Reuther called the GM settle
ment "an extremely significant
and far-reaching contract" costing
the corporation 600 million dollars
over the three-year period. Reuth
er said it was worth better than
20 cents an hour per employe,
like the Ford contract. GM Presi
dent Harlow H. Curtice said it
assured the vast GM auto empire
of three more years of labor
peace.
NOT ENTHUSIASTIC
Curtice, however, was less than
enthusiastic about the guaranteed
wage plan won by the union. He
intimated that GM agreed to it
only because Ford had first given
in. Curtice said the guaranteed
wage plan was "exceedingly com
plicated and will require some
time to fully appraise," but GM
nevertheless had accepted it.
GM like Ford agreed to guar
antee laid-off workers 60 to 65
per cent of regular tane-nome
pay including state unemployment
compensation benefits, for a max
imum of 26 weeks. GM wm con
tribute 5 cents an hour per work
er toward a 150-million-dollar
trust to finance the plan over the
next three years.
Curtice said that GM, while
agreeing to the guaranteed wage
plan, still "earnestly" believes
that the responsibility for de
termining the amount and dura
tion of unemployment benefits
rests with the legislatures of
the various states.
GM Vice President Harry W.
Anderson, top company negotia-
STRIKE AVERTED
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Convicted Reds'
Appeal Rejected
PHILADELPHIA an The
Third U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals Monday upheld the con
viction of Steve Nelson and four
other Western Pennsylvania and
West Virginia Communist leaders
sentenced to five year prison
terms for conspiring to advocate
violent overthrow of the govern
ment.
The conviction was sustained
by a 5 to 2 decision of the
appellate court.
The opinion was handed down
in the case argued June 9, 1954,
appealing the convictions of Net
son, William Albertson, a Com
munist party secretary, Benjamin
L. Carreathers. nartv treasurer:
James Hulse DMsen" party writer,
ana Irving weissman, former
West Virginia party lfader. .
TrMmar to Speak
At y.tf. Ceremony
UNITED NATIONS. N.Y.
Former President Truman has
agreed to speak at the10h anr?lthe current courfKouse and wrld
'versary sessin f le UniteiTlie partly if the'clod street
Vatinnc in San Fr5nrUif A lfc-W Cltv hall. fbon
"U.N. Se'etary General Dag!
Hammskjoldo announced last
nirhf ttiat&iAan'will srak
June ?4 The former PrPiidcnt
did noP a?ep? a jrevirfls bid
frofli thtaft Department to
apcear at U Jun 20-26 tymi
vcftary fycygram.
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BUICK WORKERS HAIL NEW CONTRACT Workers
of General Motors' Flint, Mich., Buick division tear up
picket signs they didn't get a chance to use Monday as
General Motors and the United Auto Workers announced
a new three-year contract covering 375,000 wage earners.
Peron Calls Cabinet
To Study Riot Crisis
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
Iffi New street fighting flared
Monday in the Plaza de Mayo
before the Metropolitan Ca
thedral where 23 persons were
Injured in weekend rioting be
tween government and Cath
olic Church supporters. No
one on either side was hurt
seriously in Monday's clash.
BUENOS AIRES 0PI President
Juan D. Fcron and his Cabinet
met for 90 minutes Monday in a
special session to review the
weekend Catholic riots in which
at least 22 persons were shot or
otherwise injured and more than
400 persons were arrested.
It was announced that Peron
will make a broadcast to the na
tion Monday night on the events
of the weekend.
In addition to the injuries and
arrests, the repeated clashes be
tween Catholics and supporters
High of 73
Due Tuesday
Sunny days and partly cloudy
evenings are in store for the Eu
gene area Monday night and
Tuesday, according to the weath
erman. He predicted the high tempera
ture for both days would be 73
degrees, rather chilly as com
pared to the hot 90's of last week.
The mercury is slated to fall to
42 Monday night.
Although the sun did shine
Sunday, the day was not very
warm, with a high temperature
of 71 degrees. It dropped to 39
degrees early Monday morning.
With the lower temperatures,
the humidity problem has les
sened in the forests. It was ex
pected to be 40 per cent Monday,
following 45 per cent Sunday.
Western Oregon residents will
have to put up with cloudy skies
through Tuesday. Highs Monday
and Tuesday are expected to be
70-80, except 60-65 along the
coast, and lows, 42-52.
Revised Civic Center Proposal'
Cleared by County Commission
A revised civic center proposal
which would place a new Eu
gene City Hall cast of. the court
house rather than north of it
had the support Monday of the
Lane County Board of Commis
sioners. The plan, developed by Plan
ning Consultant Howard Buford,
has not yet received formal at
tention hjr eounty or city officials.
H.AX EXPLAINED
Commissioner K(Sineh Niekcn
explained the tentative proposal
this, way: 8th Ave. between Park(
Ave. and Oak St. a one-Mock
notch would be closed to trafc
lie. A Hf w county corthoTlse
would be built Birectly south of
jTulde bilt east of the OsfjurnT
Hotel at 8th and Pearl. The Dres-
efft civic center lan t9lls for 'jty
hallonstruction4et'?cn0o and
7th Ay. at OaO ffi
$elsen said undT ihe new
plan the county is "noP unwill
ing yr a new city library to be
of the Peron regime left a wast
train of broken windows and tar-
smeared public monuments and
buildings through this capital
city.
The disturbances caused inter
national incidents involving Yu
goslavia, Peru and Israel.
It was announced officially that
police arrested 428 men when
they entered the Curia Eclesias
tica, adjoining the cathedral in
national flag.
Most of those arrested were
said to have been under 25 years
of age. They are being held at
the Central Police Department
It was reported that other ar
rests might bring Ihe total to as
many as 600 persons.
Peron called Parliament into
special session to take new re
pressive measures against Catho
lics accused of destroying the
national flag.
Minister of Interior Angel Bor
lenghi Monday prohibited all fu
turc street processions and other
outdoor Catholic Church cere
monies anywhere in Argentina
Newspapers Monday indicated
that official anger is concentrated
on the burning of the Argentine
flag near the Congress Saturday
nignt.
Homage to the nation's flag was
the theme of scheduled official
ceremonies. Monday the Senate,
Chamber of Deputies and all
Army units and schools were to
renew their allegiance to the na
tional banner. The desecration of
the flag also is expected to be
the main point of Peron's ad
dress Monday night. ,
A communique issued by the
Federal Police announced the ar
rests of persons who took refuge
in the Archbishopric, next door to
the Metropolitan Cathedral, and
of "other elements" which the
government identified as belong
ing to the Argentine Catholic
Action."
BASEBALL
NATIONAL I.EAGUB
Milwaukee at Cincinnati, night.
Only game scheduled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
No games scheduled.
located on the west park block.
He said, however, the city would
have to purchase property due
north of the present courthouse
to trade to the county for the
library site.
The new'civic center plants
expected 'to "be discuswd fhurs
day -evening during panel dis
cussion at the CongregatioiVI
ithurch, at 13th and. Ferry. The
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Loyal Support
Promised
By Adenauer
Chancellor Arrives
For Talk With Ike
WASHINGTON (JP West
German. Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer assured the United
States Monday his country
will maintain a "close and
loyal partnership" with the
West despite the wooing of
MOSCOW.
"My countrymen are con
vinced," Adenauer said on his ar
rival here for talks with Presi
dent Eisenhower, "that a close
and loyal partnership with the
peoples of the free world on the
basis of the treaties which have
recently come into force is the
best means of maintaining peace
ana trecdom."
BEST MEANS'
"They also consider it the best
metnsiof obtaining the peaceful
reunification of Germany in free
dom." X
Adenauer did 'not directly re
fer to the pending Russian invi
tation for him to visit Moscow,
But his reference to reunifying
his country in "freedom" was a
way of rejecting any suggestion
that he or the West German peo
ple would consider unifying it
under the conditions of the Com
munists. Adenauer's plane landed at Na
tional airport at 8:55 a.m. (EDT)
LUNCH WITH IKE
He was greeted on his arrival
by Undersecretary of State Her
bert Hoover Jr., and a group ot
high American officials as well
as Ambassador Heinz Krckclcr,
German envoy to Washington,
and Ambassador Herbert Blankcn
horn, Germany's NATO repre
sentative. Adenauer will meet with Ei
senhower at lunch Tuesday.
Later in the week, tho German
chancellor is to receive on hon
orary degree from Harvard Uni
versity. Adenauer came to Washington
by special plane of Lufthansa,
fhe German civil airlines now
just resuming transatlantic oper
ations. Senate Expected
To Extend Draft
WASHINGTON Wl Chairnfan
Russell (D-Ga) predicted Monday
the Senate Armed Services Com
mittee will approve extensions of
the draft law and the separate
doctor draft act "without major
changes."
Russell called his committee in
to closed session for indicated
speedy action which would clear
the two bills for Senate action
later this week.
Russell rejected a Pentagon re
quest to tack the Eisenhower ad
ministration's new reserve pro
gram, which is bogged down in
Ihe House, onto the draft meas
ure and any unexpected Senate
effort to do this appeared
doomed.
meeting, sponsored by the Eu
gene League of Women Voters,
will start at 8 p.m.
MEMBERS. LISTED .
Panel members will be Willis
Warren, the Eugene library
board; Paul Bogen, Architects
Collaborative; Larry Watson! Eu
gene City Council, and Nielsen.
Charles'Duncan, associal profes
sor of 'journalism at thc Uni
versity of Oregon, will be mod
erator. -
The iaij topic of the meetia,";
will conccmAthe subject f a
library ite, but Nielsen said
Mnrftlay Jhere willljofte discus
sion, on the new civ "tpnti plan,'
which Is tied in with liiry sit
consideration
Rebels Surrender
SAIftflN. Sou nfcNa
"fc Nam.
of Ho?
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Ha
Gen. Tran Van Soai"! rcB forces
have surrJsjk'Icrcd to the n.itiiS.il
,3 my, Pgfmicr Ngo Dinh Dice's
'government announced Monday.
. Meclal Arrives
40 Years Late
LOS ANGELES A medal
came to John W: Long Just
40 years late but it really
Wasn't unusual for him.
The medal was the Army's
Mexican Border Service Med
al for duty from 1913 to
1917.
Long, 68, said Monday,
"The adjutant general's of
fice notified me of the award
last March 14. I guess they
had confused me with a lot
of other Longs in the Army
and that's why it took this
long to send me the medal."
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HIS BEST FRIEND In this case it's a gas mask as a
scout dog and his handler participate in a mock gas at
tack during maneuvers somewhere in Germany. The
Army's highly trained dogs are so important in combat
that they have their own gas masks to be worn in event
of enemy attack. (Department of Defense photo)
Commissioners Rap
Cut in Welfare Aid !
Lane ' County Commissioners
said Monday the state has cut
back the county 1955-56 'welfare
budget' "below what we consider
is an absolute minimum."
Lane County last week received
an allocation of $1,501,000 from
the state welfare commission for
the next fiscal year, about $30,000
less than for 1954-55. The county
commissioners said if this alloca
tion isn't revised, the county will
be forced to reduce general as
sistance funds to insure sufficient
money for federally-subsidized
categories of old age assistance,
aid to dependent children and
Three Killed
In Accidents
By Associated Press
Three persons died in separate
traffic accidents in Oregon last
weak end.
Earl H. Imhausen, 25, of Med
ford,.was killed Saturday night
when an automobile he was rid
ing in plunged off a highway.and
struck a power pole near Mcd
ford. The driver of the car, J. C.
Skaggs, 38, Mcdford, was injured.
Phyllis J. Blair, 10, of Port
land, died Sunday night from in
juries suffered a few hours ear
lier in a Portland crash. She was
a passcngcf in & car which
rammed 11 utihtv pole. The driver
of the car, Ronald H. StentpeJ
If), a Lewis and Clark CAIIcgc
athlete, suffered mInor injuries.
Mjss Blair was Portland's 22nd
Js.ti'ic v'-tim this year.
Mrs. Riley Batey was killed
and ?jx persons, all fiom 1,'ort-
'iind. were iitjuyd in a two-ca
Highway Bcar ForcJl Grove Sun
day. a
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oSolons Visit Quemoy
I TAIPEI, Formosa i -? U.
Sens. ClcmOits (D-Kyj and Dili
nO (R-III), in &c Orient to- study
Amerrcan military and economic
aid programs? visitciOjffUcmoy
IslawjgjMonday.
Bloodhounds Lead
Searchers to Hibbs
A search party discovered 78-year-old Leo Hibbs still
alive Monday afternoon in the
was reported in "remarkably
The elderly fisherman had
rugged country near Lintor
McKenzie Bridee. Bloodhounds led a search'party to him
after spending nearly 24 hours following a trail discovered
Sunday afternoon. .
A state policeman in the search party reported the dis
covery of the missing man at 12:40 p.m. He made the re
aid to the permanently and totally
disabled.
Max Dudley, county welfare ad
ministrator, said Monday the flew
budget allocation means that
starting July 1 the average rate
of expenditure for many of the
welfare categories will be less
than the June rate.
TIGHTEN MORE
"To , make the money stretch
through the year," he said, "we
will have to tighten up still more.
We will have to dig out all possi
ble revenue sources. This will
mean more strict plans for de
termining eligibility of appli
cants." Dudley said tho county has
now proposed a revised budget
to the state totaling about $1,590,
000 and that this amount would
enable the county to provide
"minimum" standards for the
next fiscal year.
Dudley said that the state wel
fare commission cut back the
budget requests of all counties,
basing the reduction on an equal
percentage of each county's ex
penditures during JB54-55.
The county commissioners, how
ever, have notified the state wel
fare commission that this basis
for appropriating public assist
ance funds "iS working an injus
tice on Lane Cotinty."
'WORKS HARDSHIP'
. I a letter to the state, the
commissioners sajd: "Because of
the variance is administering the
program, we feel that a straight
across the boara cut works
W.Wship on those counties which
have tried the hardest n".-idmifi
isfc-r tie public wertare program
lirmle,
The commissioners said Jhe
ijatc c owTi records will verify
t'jit Lane County has bgon "very
strifft'O ine the admiiflstration of
its wclfarf p)g(m.
Stating they are opposed to
waste, luxury, fr loosPness" fii
thff welfare programthe commis
sioners, howoer?saddcd "we arc
equally opposed to allowing pub-
Ikowelfare benefits to be redticecblhough there aro still substantial
below whatQe consider to be a difficulties in the way ot the set
humane minimum." q thjment," he said.
Sisters Wilderness Area. He
good" condition.
been lost since Thursday In
Lake, about 15 miles east of
port over walkie-talkie radio
to a patrol car at the Alder
Springs base camp, head
quarters for the search
group.
The announcement was relayed
to Eugene by way of state polica
headquarters at Bend, which.
picked up the radio message from
the patrol car. An ambulance was
immediately dispatched from Eu
gene, i '
Forest Service Clerk James
Drury. said at 2 p.m. he had re
ceived a radio report that Hibbi
was in 'remarkably good" condi
tion and had walked part of the
way out of the woods unaided
after being located. Gary Hubbe
and Ken Mays of Blue River were
the first persons to see the elder
ly man. He was following Ob
sidian Creek back toward Linton
Lake when he was discovered.
An early Indication that the
missing man had survived his
four-day ordeal came at 8:10 a.m.
Monday, when searchers reported
finding a fresh trail In snow that
had fallen in the area during the
night.
At noon Monday, Sheriff Ed
Elder said part of the search
party had returned to the base
camp at Alder Springs and a
small group of woodsmen and
police were continuing to follow
the trail with the bloodhounds.
Elder said melting snow was
complicating the dogs' efforts to
keep on the trail. They had been
following the tracks for almost
24 hours when the last report
was received.
The sheriff flew over the area
in a small plane Monday morning
MAN FOUND
(Continued on Page 7-A)
Four Burned
In Explosion
At Harrisburg
Burns from a gas explosion in
a Harrisburg motel sent four por
sons to Sacred Heart Hospital
early Sunday. One of them, Den
nis Wayne Beck, 56, was in criti
cal condition Monday. '
Beck's wife, Flossie Fay, 24,
told state police tho blast oc
curred when she awoke during
the night and lit a cigarette. An
investigation later showed that
four burners on a gas range in
the motel had been left on, fill
ing the room with gas.
Mrs. Beck's two children, four-year-old
Mary Alice and 18-month-old
John Ray, were also
sleeping in the room when the
gas burst into flame.
The children and their mother
suffered 30 per cent burns. Beck
was burned on about 75 per cent
of his body.
State police said the family re
cently came to Oregon from Al
ton, III., and had been planning
to settle here. Beck had been
looking for work in Harrisburg.
They were staying at Moore's
Motel, just north of the Harcis
burg's city limits, when the ex
plosion occurred. An occupant of
a neighboring cabin -at the motel
carried them from the Charred
room after the explosion. They
wene taken to the hospital by
Eugene Ambulance.
State police said Monday they,
had noi determined who had'
opened the gas burners in the
room. They said the gas ra'tga
was located under an open win- t
dew.
British Rail Talks f
In Critjcal Stage
LONDON tin Labor Minister
Sir Wjltcr Monckton said Mon
day talks to end Britain's, 16-day
raTlroiffl stnko are at a critical
stage, o
Mcoicktou appealed to the
House of Commons to refrain
from even debating the matter at
this time?
The talks are continuing, al-
o